Jewish Heritage Europe’s Ruth Ellen Gruber, Victor Sorenssen from the AEPJ, and Helise Lieberman from the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning have been programming lively online roundtables based on the provocative article 10 (Other) Commandments, for the Care of Jewish Heritage by Sally Berkovic, CEO of the Rothschild …
Jewish life on screen: a century of insights and hidden histories.This collection uncovers insights, injustices and hidden histories across a century of Jewish life on British screens. It brings together documentary and first-person accounts of Jewish life in the UK, alongside historical dramas and artists’ work exploring the 20th century …
The History Festival and Family Connections – more on the Topaz family and beyond By Rabbi Dr Walter Rothschild, Berlin One of the things which fascinated me about the History Festival was how many links – some of them admittedly vague or distant – I had with so many of …
Roy’s story – From Manchester to Somerton Via Canada by Jane Warner Based on ‘Let’s Face the Music and Dance: My Life’s Adventure, by Roy Copeland (2016) ISBN 978-1-5272-0321-1 Early Jewish life Roy was born in 1929. He recalls attending shul with his father on Friday nights followed by …
Making Connections at the History Festival When Jeremy Topaz emailed in from Israel last year to respond to our call for Sunderland memories, it was the start of a fascinating heritage trail across three of our locations that lit up the History Festival. Jeremy himself kindly recorded the story of …
Additional resources for Key Stages 2 & 3 Supports any Judaism modules or activities, including ‘Heritage Detectives’ TOPICS: Resilience in small communities Jewish Festivals Jewish Objects Family Origins Diversity HERITAGE DETECTIVES Heritage Detectives contains ideas and activities to support KS2&3 local history study. Topics in Heritage Detectives with other areas across …
From 15th to 25th March 2021 / 16 Nisan 5781 Over 370 people registered and took part in the Connecting Small Histories History Festival. Across 12 sessions, academics, storytellers, authors, communities, project teams and volunteers presented their research to the History Festival audiences. Highlights included lively discussions, new connections, and …
Hilary Thomas received many responses to her appeal for information about the evacuee and wartime childhood experience in this seaside town, one that Jewish and non-Jewish children alike shared. Here we present the stories…. …as told to her in phone and email conversations, as the Coronavirus lockdown prevented any face-to-face …
Much of the history of St Annes Synagogue is captured on its website and in its synagogue boards – here we present some of the memories behind the names Synagogue boards (photo courtesy of Glen Berd) 1940s 1940 the community buys the St Annes Mission Chapel on Orchard …
The Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK and Ireland, begun in 1997, recorded more than 350 synagogues and Jewish sites that date from before World War II This website includes regularly updated news on UK Jewish Heritage Photo: Langside Synagogue, Glasgow. credit: Michal Klajban via wikimedia/ …
